The poet kari edwards died on December 3. I am completely shocked. I never met her and never saw her read, but it's very strange to think of her not being around. I suppose that when the only major transgender poet is taken away, the result is a powerful absence
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This upsets me for a few reasons. 1.When people who knew kari referred to kari as "she," it suggests to those who didn't know kari that "she" was the correct pronoun to use. 2.This precedent is especially shitty now, as any mention of kari's death is inevitably going to use a pronoun that would have upset kari, which seems like a horrible thing to do to a person who has passed away.
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Maybe you knew this already, but you can now download what would have been kari's new book here.
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